copyFile {R.utils}R Documentation

Copies a file safely

Description

Copies a file safely by first copying to a temporary file and then renaming that file.

Usage

## Default S3 method:
copyFile(srcPathname, destPathname, overwrite=FALSE, ..., verbose=FALSE)

Arguments

srcPathname The source file to be copied.
destPathname The destination file to be created.
overwrite If TRUE, an existing destination file is overwritten.
... Not used.
verbose See Verbose.

Value

Returns TRUE if the file was copied succesfully.

Author(s)

Henrik Bengtsson (http://www.braju.com/R/)

See Also

file.copy()


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